Requisition

A demand in writing, or formal request or requirement.

— The term is applied to a request preferred by a governor of one state to that of another, for the extradition of a fugitive from justice;

— to a written statement, furnished by oi Ecers charged with serving out supplies in the government service, to those charged with custody of them in store, of the quantities of rations, clothing, stationery, lumber, materials, &o., they will require in the discharge of their duties for some limited time to come;

— to similar official requests for supreformed codes of procedare, that the sheriff seize and deliver to plaintiff the goods for which the action is brought; and to some other official demands.

Requisitions on title. In English conveyancing, are written inquiries made by the solicitor of an intending purchaser of land, or of any estate or interest therein, and addressed to the vendor's solicitor, in respect of some apparent insufficiency in the abstract of title. Mozley ^ W.